CEPH Write Performance

mcdowellster

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Hello Guys,

Single Node ceph guy again.

Recently suffered a two drive failure and lost some PGs so I rebuilt my pools and restored from external backups. The restores are taking FOREVER. Testing against my SSD pool which used to perform closer to 500MB/s it's maxing out at 60MB/s.

Node hosts ALL the storage. Two monitors. 10GBit Fibre. Jumbo enabled. Blue Stores.

Writing to spinning OSDs (8 of them all WD RED) also maxes out around 60MB/s.

Any ideas?

rados -p SSDStorage bench -b 4194304 60 write -t 128 --no-cleanup
Total time run: 61.726422
Total writes made: 940
Write size: 4194304
Object size: 4194304
Bandwidth (MB/sec): 60.9139
Stddev Bandwidth: 56.7327
Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 276
Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 0
Average IOPS: 15
Stddev IOPS: 14
Max IOPS: 69
Min IOPS: 0
Average Latency(s): 8.10854
Stddev Latency(s): 1.80821
Max latency(s): 11.8255
Min latency(s): 2.68556

Code:
# begin crush map
tunable choose_local_tries 0
tunable choose_local_fallback_tries 0
tunable choose_total_tries 50
tunable chooseleaf_descend_once 1
tunable chooseleaf_vary_r 1
tunable chooseleaf_stable 1
tunable straw_calc_version 1
tunable allowed_bucket_algs 54
# devices
device 0 osd.0 class hdd
device 1 osd.1 class hdd
device 2 osd.2 class hdd
device 3 osd.3 class hdd
device 4 osd.4 class hdd
device 5 osd.5 class ssd
device 6 osd.6 class hdd
device 7 osd.7 class hdd
device 8 osd.8 class ssd
device 9 osd.9 class ssd
device 10 osd.10 class hdd
device 11 osd.11 class ssd
# types
type 0 osd
type 1 host
type 2 chassis
type 3 rack
type 4 row
type 5 pdu
type 6 pod
type 7 room
type 8 datacenter
type 9 region
type 10 root
# buckets
host positronic {
    id -10        # do not change unnecessarily
    id -11 class hdd        # do not change unnecessarily
    id -12 class ssd        # do not change unnecessarily
    # weight 26.400
    alg straw2
    hash 0    # rjenkins1
    item osd.2 weight 2.729
    item osd.7 weight 2.729
    item osd.10 weight 2.729
    item osd.9 weight 0.465
    item osd.8 weight 0.465
    item osd.11 weight 1.819
    item osd.5 weight 1.819
    item osd.0 weight 2.729
    item osd.1 weight 2.729
    item osd.6 weight 2.729
    item osd.3 weight 2.729
    item osd.4 weight 2.729
}
root default {
    id -1        # do not change unnecessarily
    id -2 class hdd        # do not change unnecessarily
    id -6 class ssd        # do not change unnecessarily
    # weight 26.399
    alg straw2
    hash 0    # rjenkins1
    item positronic weight 26.399
}
# rules
rule replicated_rule {
    id 0
    type replicated
    min_size 1
    max_size 10
    step take positronic class hdd
    step choose firstn 0 type osd
    step emit
}
rule FastStoreage {
    id 1
    type replicated
    min_size 1
    max_size 10
    step take default class ssd
    step choose firstn 0 type osd
    step emit
}
# end crush map

Code:
[global]
     auth client required = cephx
     auth cluster required = cephx
     auth service required = cephx
     cluster network = 10.10.10.0/24
     debug asok = 0/0
     debug auth = 0/0
     debug buffer = 0/0
     debug client = 0/0
     debug context = 0/0
     debug crush = 0/0
     debug filer = 0/0
     debug filestore = 0/0
     debug finisher = 0/0
     debug heartbeatmap = 0/0
     debug journal = 0/0
     debug journaler = 0/0
     debug lockdep = 0/0
     debug mds = 0/0
     debug mds balancer = 0/0
     debug mds locker = 0/0
     debug mds log = 0/0
     debug mds log expire = 0/0
     debug mds migrator = 0/0
     debug mon = 0/0
     debug monc = 0/0
     debug ms = 0/0
     debug objclass = 0/0
     debug objectcacher = 0/0
     debug objecter = 0/0
     debug optracker = 0/0
     debug osd = 0/0
     debug paxos = 0/0
     debug perfcounter = 0/0
     debug rados = 0/0
     debug rbd = 0/0
     debug rgw = 0/0
     debug throttle = 0/0
     debug timer = 0/0
     debug tp = 0/0
     fsid = e791fb44-9c38-4e86-8edf-cdbc5a3f7d63
     keyring = /etc/pve/priv/$cluster.$name.keyring
     mon allow pool delete = true
     osd crush chooseleaf type = 0
     osd journal size = 5120
     osd pool default min size = 2
     osd pool default size = 3
     osd_memory_target = 3221225472
     osd recovery op priority = 2
         osd max backfills = 1
     osd recovery max active = 1
     osd recovery threads = 1
     public network = 10.10.10.0/24

[mds]
     keyring = /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-$id/keyring

[osd]
     keyring = /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-$id/keyring

[mon.Q]
     host = Q
     mon addr = 10.10.10.5:6789

[mon.positronic]
     host = positronic
     mon addr = 10.10.10.7:6789


AHH POO! Looks like my Samy EVO 850 has some SERIOUS performance issues:
Code:
root@positronic:~/crush20190705# ceph tell osd.9 bench
{
    "bytes_written": 1073741824,
    "blocksize": 4194304,
    "elapsed_sec": 2.935917,
    "bytes_per_sec": 365726185.092001,
    "iops": 87.195917
}
root@positronic:~/crush20190705# ceph tell osd.8 bench
{
    "bytes_written": 1073741824,
    "blocksize": 4194304,
    "elapsed_sec": 55.418091,
    "bytes_per_sec": 19375294.320168,
    "iops": 4.619430
}
root@positronic:~/crush20190705# ceph tell osd.5 bench
{
    "bytes_written": 1073741824,
    "blocksize": 4194304,
    "elapsed_sec": 6.348679,
    "bytes_per_sec": 169128386.978483,
    "iops": 40.323350
}
root@positronic:~/crush20190705# ceph tell osd.11 bench
{
    "bytes_written": 1073741824,
    "blocksize": 4194304,
    "elapsed_sec": 5.240622,
    "bytes_per_sec": 204888238.978340,
    "iops": 48.849163
}
 
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I believe WD Reds are SATA drives? If so, you may want to confirm if write caching is enabled with the 'hdparm' command.

I don't use SATA. I use SAS drives, which uses the 'sdparm' command.
 
I believe WD Reds are SATA drives? If so, you may want to confirm if write caching is enabled with the 'hdparm' command.

I don't use SATA. I use SAS drives, which uses the 'sdparm' command.


Yes all drives have it enabled.

Also my dev/sdb is an Samsung evo 850. It suddenly benchmarks at 20MB/s write. Reads at 450MB/s. All my other SSDs bench much better. Not sure why this single ssd is acting poorly. I rebalanced the pool and it's only 55% full so slc isnt maxed.
 
Your problem is that you're using a consumer SSD with bluestore taking up all available disk space. Luckily your timing couldn't be better. Upgrade to PVE6 and this will fix your issue, although you might need to manually tell Ceph to trim the drive once after you upgrade. Ceph Luminous does not support sending DISCARDs to the underlying block device so when you first add the OSD you get great write performance but after running for a while with Ceph filling up the OSD your SSD doesn't have enough free chunks on hand so it has to resort to a lot of read, modify, erase, write cycles which will just kill performance on those SSDs. Ceph Mimic and above added support for TRIM so it'll notify the SSD when a section of the disk is freed so that the SSD can erase that chunk and get it added back to the free list so it can write directly to it when needed rather than having to erase and rewrite it on every write.
 

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